I have to disagree. You and I are pretty much stuck clicking "Flag" on Youtube.
The White House gets to use the power of the bully pulpit to make such a "request" and Al Qaeda storms a few embassies and murders diplomats to make their "request".
I may not have made this clear but my argument wasn't that we all have the same way to report things but that we're all free to advocate for YT to do anything we want to advocate for.
I'm sorry you're not as powerful as the president but that's just reality. If I don't like the leather iCal in OS X I get to say that in comments 100 people read. If John Gruber doesn't like it he gets a million Apple users and employees to listen to him. Jony Ive's opinion even more powerful. Things aren't equal.
The White House gets to use the power of the bully pulpit to make such a "request" and Al Qaeda storms a few embassies and murders diplomats to make their "request".